desolate

Synonyms

black, bleak, cheerless, chill, cloudy, cold, comfortless, dark, darkening, depressing, depressive, dire, disconsolate, dismal, drear, dreary, elegiac (also elegiacal), forlorn, funereal, gloomy, glum, godforsaken, gray (also grey), lonely, lonesome, lugubrious, miserable, morbid, morose, murky, saturnine, sepulchral, solemn, somber (or sombre), sullen, sunless, wretched;

Antonyms

bright, cheerful, cheering, cheery, comforting, cordial, festive, gay, heartwarming, sunshiny;

Near Antonyms

blithe, blithesome, buoyant, gay, jocund, jolly, joyful, joyous, merry, mirthful;

encouraging, hopeful, optimistic;

lighthearted, lightsome;

Related Words

blue, dejected, depressed, despondent, disconsolate, down, droopy, hangdog, inconsolable, low, melancholic, melancholy, mirthless, sad, unhappy, woebegone, woeful;

dim, discomfiting, discouraging, disheartening, dismaying, dispiriting, distressful, distressing, upsetting;

desperate, hopeless, pessimistic;

lamentable, mournful, plaintive, sorrowful;

colorless, drab, dull;

dour, grim, lowering (also louring), lowery (also loury), menacing, oppressive, threatening;

Synonyms

annihilate, cream, decimate, demolish, destroy, devastate, do in, extinguish, nuke, pull down, pulverize, raze, rub out, ruin, shatter, smash, tear down, total, vaporize, waste, wrack, wreck;

Antonyms

build, construct, erect, put up, raise, rear, set up;

Near Antonyms

doctor, fix, mend, patch, recondition, repair, revamp;

create, invent;

assemble, fabricate, fashion, forge, form, frame, make, manufacture, mold, produce, shape;

bring about, constitute, establish, father, found, institute, organize;

conserve, preserve, protect, save;

rebuild, reconstruct, remodel, renovate, restore;

Related Words

beat, best, clobber, conquer, crush, defeat, drub, lick, master, overbear, overcome, overmatch, prevail (over), rout, scotch, skunk, subdue, surmount, thrash, trim, triumph (over), trounce, wallop, whip, win (against);

blast, blow up, break, cripple, damage, deface, deteriorate, disfigure, disintegrate, dissolve, dynamite, harm, impair, injure, mangle, mar, mutilate, spoil, vitiate;

erode, scour, sweep (away), wash out, wear (away);

dilapidate, disassemble, dismantle, gut, take down, unbuild, undo, unmake;

blot out, efface, eradicate, expunge, exterminate, extirpate, liquidate, obliterate, remove, root (out), snuff (out), stamp (out), wipe out;

despoil, havoc, loot, pillage, plunder, ravage, sack, trample, trash, vandalize;